Author's Note:
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But I also have to apologize for the few spelling mistakes I made in the first chapter...I only re-read my story once it was allready uploaded and I must say I am not good with computers and all that technic so I kinda am scared of clicking on the wrong button and thus deleting my story... /
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Disclaimer: I'll only say it once because it is actually quite obvious; Naruto is not mine and certainly never will be!
Out of Habit
Naruto Uzumaki stared at his surroundings. His blue eyes glowing faintly in the moon light while they roamed over little bushes, giant trees and green leaves. His bright sun-kissed hair swaying slightly with the fresh spring breeze, as his long fluffy Tail lay curled around him. Naruto also had two cute fox ears and three whiskers on each of his cheeks. He wasn't really tall; nor was he muscular. No, his appeariance was more like a little boy's than an actual 17 years old Kitsune.
His father had often said, his manlyness would come with his growth. But well... his father had often said things would change in Time. In the end Minato was right with the latter; only that things had changed in just one heart breaking moment and way before Naruto had reached adulthood. Three years prior the little fox had become parentless and thus incredibly lonely.
The Uzumakis mother had died after giving birth to her beloved son. His father would allways praise his mother with high words and a loving smile on his face. Minato's describtion of Narutos mother seemed to fit an angel; that's how the blonde imagined her – well minus the wings.
Minato Namikaze died while protecting his precious son from hunters, who wanted to sell them for a high price. The back then, 14 year old boy succeeded in escaping from those cruel humans.
Ever since, Naruto was afraid of humans and never left the familiar forest again. He avoided the narrow trails that passed through the forest and hardly got out of his cave on daytime.
The Uzumaki didn't know what to do with his time so he had set up a routine: In the mornings he would wake up at dawn and go to the nearby river to satisfy his thirst, afterwards he would go hunting in his fox form. Often, he would need a lot of time to catch a rabbit. Naruto was not the best hunter out in the woods and surely never would be, so when his hunt hadn't been very successfully he settled with searching for edible berrys and other fruits.
In the afternoons he would simply do what ever he wanted to and at night, after the moon had risen the Kitsune would take a relaxing bath in the river, before going back to his cave to sleep until dawn.
Right now Naruto was still stitting on the hard forest ground, lost in thoughts without noticing it. The only difference from the scene before was, that now he was solely staring at the full moon obove him.
I feel kinda odd... what's up with tonight's moon? It looks soo huge
The Uzumaki couldn't helb but watch the far away planet with awe and undivided attention.
After what seemed like an eternity the Kitsune managed to turn his face away. He shook his had a few times to clear his mind a bit and remembered his daily routine again. Naruto wasn't done with his day yet! He still had to go to the river and take his bath.
Promptly the Kitsune transformed into his fox form and ran off to his beloved river. He felt like he needed to get there as fast as possible and therefore sprinted like there was no tomorrow. It was weird, odd and definitly not part of his routine to firstly stare at a full moon for who knows how long and then dash like a madman to the river! It wasn't like the water would run away from him or somthing like that...
Yet the Uzumaki tried to go even faster and faster. His brain couldn't even grasp why he was in such a hurry. Naruto only knew that he had to be at the river.
Once the Fox saw the clearing of forest and opening he halted abruptly and stopped in his tracks.
Naruto transformed back to his human form and leaned onto the next tree to get some fresh air into his lungs before he started to see black. His chest heaved severly and his mind started to actually work again, even if it felt like there was a cloud resting on his thoughts.
„What the hell? Why did I bother running here so fast?" The kitsune managed to breath out, his voice unsteady.
Naruto couldn't understand it... but whatever, he was finally there!
The Uzumaki strode, still a bit out of breath, to the river while lazily untieing the band around his waist and thus letting his orange kimono fall to the ground. Fine tanned skin was reveald as the orange cloth slid down his body.
Even though Naruto's body wasn't very trained it was far from being chubby let alone fat. No, he was perfectly in the middle!
Still, there was one item he would never even think of taking off; around his neck hung a marvellous looking blue diamond shaped more or less like two rectangles interwining with each other to create something like a tower . His precious necklace was given to him by his father and was laced with magic. His father had explained to him that this Necklace was there to kinda store his chlothes when he changed forms. That's why Naruto hadn't appeared naked on the river side.
As the Kitsune reached the edge of the Ground he didn't hesitate to jump into the water and make his presence unintentionally known to a certain raven headed shinobi.